Principal Software Engineer

About Lowe’s Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 50 home improvement company serving approximately 16 million customer transactions a week in the United States. With total fiscal year 2023 sales of more than $86 billion, Lowe’s operates over 1,700 home improvement stores and employs approximately 300,000 associates. Based in Bengaluru, Lowe’s India develops innovative technology products and solutions and delivers business capabilities to provide the best omnichannel experience for Lowe’s customers. Lowe’s India employs over 4,200 associates across technology, analytics, merchandising, supply chain, marketing, finance and accounting, product management and shared services. Lowe’s India actively supports the communities it serves through programs focused on skill-building, sustainability and safe homes. For more information, visit, Job Summary •The primary purpose of this role is to design cross-functional solutions for highly complex requirements while ensuring that applications work in concert across Lowe's. This includes leading the development, configuration, or modification of new solutions for the business and resolving architectural or design deficiencies. In addition, this role provides consultation to help ensure new and existing software solutions are developed with insight into industry best practices, strategies, and architectures. •This individual has a deep knowledge and understanding of Software and uses this insight to support Technology senior leadership. This includes partnering with Enterprise Architects to discuss long-term Technology strategy and providing objective information and data to help inform and drive critical Technology decisions. Key Responsibilities •Provide technical and architectural thought leadership to the organization. •Provides consultation on business requirements and functional specifications in logical program designs, code modules, stable application systems, and software solutions; facilitates the transition to high level design and supports the project lifecycle with input from executive leadership where needed. •Contributes to and leverages the technical direction for the development, configuration, or modification of integrated business and/or enterprise application solutions within various computing environments by providing insight and guidance for the design and coding of component-based applications. •Serves as a technical expert for product and project teams throughout the implementation and maintenance of business and enterprise software solutions by leveraging partnerships with technology teams and business leaders to resolve escalated issues. •Offers expertise in troubleshooting complex systems integration testing (SIT) and user acceptance testing (UAT) for cross-functional application initiatives. •Provides consultation to help ensure new and existing software solutions are developed throughout the product lifecycle with insight into industry best practices, strategies, and architectures. •Has detailed knowledge of software architecture; makes technical trade-offs between short-term team needs and long-term business needs; determines how to apply and/or reuse technologies across different areas of the company. •Sets the standard for engineering, test, and operational excellence, drives best practices across organizations; builds proof-of-concepts (POC) and proof-of-technologies (POT) •Solves significantly complex or endemic problems; architectures are exemplary in terms of robustness, stability, scalability, cost-effectiveness. •Mentors and advises others, sharing an in-depth understanding of company and industry methodologies, policies, standards, and controls. •Reviews the development or modification of highly complex, enterprise level software solutions. •Develops and validates highly complex software design prototypes, ensuring software designs adhere to company architecture standards. •Provides expert insight into best practices for delivering successful validation and testing of highly complex software solutions; advises on best approach for unique and challenging testing scenarios. •Provides expert recommendations and input on options, risks, costs, and benefits for software solution designs and identifies specific interfaces and methods required to support software solutions. •Provides input into departmental budget forecasting and allocation decision. Educational Qualifications •Computer Science, CIS, or related field (or equivalent work experience in a related field) Required Experience •Required 10 years-experience, expert-level in all aspects of software development, integrations, and operations. •Required 10 years-experience designing, developing, and supporting applications using object-oriented languages like Java, Scala and/or Kotlin. •Required 10 years-experience designing, developing, and supporting highly scalable applications and APIs. •Required 10 years-experience in database technologies, including SQL and no-SQL database platforms. •Required 10 years-experience designing, developing, and supporting applications using messaging platforms like Kafka. Preferred Experience •Preferred 10 years-experience designing, developing, and supporting applications built using microservice architecture. •Preferred 8 years-experience working on front-end technologies including ReactJS, React Native, Android, etc. •Preferred 8 years-experience working with application and integration middleware. •Preferred 6 years-experience leading teams, with or without direct reports. •Preferred 8 years-experience working with source code control systems. •Preferred Experience working with Continuous Integration/ Continuous Deployment tools. •Preferred 8 years-experience in systems analysis, including defining technical requirements and performing high level design for complex solutions.